Author: Lee DeAngelis

At the turn of the 20th century North Eastern Pennsylvania was the engine of the Industrial Revolution. Railroads carrying coal and freight coursed through the valleys like blood through the veins of the nation. The Railroad companies and the Coal Barons funded colossal infrastructure projects that produced some of the most impressive railroad bridges and viaducts the world had ever known. The area surrounding Scranton provided the fuel for a growing industrial power and continued to do so through the two World Wars. After the wars the nation turned more and more away from coal and toward oil and natural gas for sources…